Duckjun ‘Doug’ Lee is the Founder and CEO of D3 Jubilee, which mainly does two things. Firstly, investing in tech-enabled social ventures at the early stage and secondly, organizing an international impact investing forum in East Asia, called D3 Impact Nights.

Upon graduating from Seoul National University, South Korea in 1987, Duckjun started his career in the NPO sector mainly around supporting the rights for underprivileged people. He served as a community activist for the residents in a shantytown in Seoul and lived with them. He turned into a credit analyst in the early 1990’s and his career in the financial industry began. After earning his postgraduate degree in Accounting &Finance from London School of Economics and Political Science, he worked for global investment banks such as Shroeder, Citi Group and Credit Swiss. In 2005, he joined Gmarket as a CFO. Thereafter, he experienced a lifecycle of a venture firm through a series of events including Gmarket’s strategic stake sale to Yahoo, IPO at NASDAQ and M&A with eBay.

In 2010, he resigned from CFO at Gmarket post merger with eBay and started Angel Investments in Silicon Valley. Gradually he sought more than mere financial returns from his investment activities and then he joined activities of the global impact investors such as Toniic in San Francisco Bay areas. In 2011, he founded D3 Jubilee to pioneer the impact investment in Korea and in the following year, opened an office in San Francisco to expand presence in the global impact investment field. Currently he lives in Palo Alto with his family and oversees D3’s activities in Korea.